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1 Con$lict Behavior in Muslim States Carolyn Abdenour, Emily Schneider, and Courtney Schuster J.D. Candidates, May 213 Syracuse University College of Law InsFtute of NaFonal Security and Counterterrorism Research Assistants Research Advisors: Dr. Corri Zoli, InsFtute for NaFonal Security and Counterterrorism, Seiki Tanaka, InsFtute for NaFonal Security and Counterterrorism Sponsors: Social Science Research Center, Carnegie Endowment, Andrew Mellon FoundaFon Award, Syracuse University College of Law Student Bar AssociaFon
2 Table of Contents DefiniFons Thesis Building the Conflict Database Findings Policy ImplicaFons
3 International Humanitarian Law (IHL); Laws of Armed Con$lict IHL are internafonal laws governing all armed conflicts, that for humanitarian reasons, reduce the negafve effects of war IHL includes the Geneva ConvenFons that protect persons, treafes that restrict the means and methods of warfare, like the Chemical Weapons ConvenFon, customary law, and internafonal tribunal case law LOAC is lex specialis, law governing a specific subject, and therefore takes precedent over all peacefme law in Fmes of armed conflict Hence IHL supersedes Human Rights Law in armed conflicts
4 De$initions InternaFonal Armed Conflicts (IAC): interstate war IACs between Muslim states: both sides Muslim belligerents Non- InternaFonal Armed Conflicts (NIAC): civil war OrganizaFon of Islamic CooperaFon (OIC): nafons that are either Muslim- majority populafon or idenffy as Muslim Sharia: religious law of Islam
5 Building a Con$lict Dataset PoliFcal scienfsts o]en assume Muslim states are more conflict prone and do not comply with IHL We wanted to test: Whether Muslim states comply with IHL in armed conflicts Whether Sharia is an alternafve norm that can mifgate conflicts where IHL is not respected Method: We tracked every conflict in which Muslim state members of the OIC were belligerents from for violafons of IHL We examined the existence of Sharia language and human rights language from the OIC member consftufons and idenffied the density of both Compared the armed conflict dataset to the consftufon dataset
6 OIC Member States Includes 46 Muslim-majority population states and 11 that identify as Muslim states ( ) Afghanistan Albania Algeria Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Benin Brunei- Darussalam Burkina Faso Cameroon Chad Comoros Cote d Ivoire DjibouF Egypt Gabon Gambia Guinea Guinea- Bissau Guyana Indonesia Iran Iraq Jordan Kazakhstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Libya Malaysia Maldives Mali Mauritania Morocco Mozambique Niger Nigeria Oman Qatar Pakistan PalesFne* Saudi Arabia Sierra Leone Senegal Somalia Sudan Suriname Syria Tajikistan Togo Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan U.A.E. Uganda Uzbekistan Yemen * Included in ConsFtuFon Database only
7 Findings 35 Figure 1: Conflicts by Muslim States, Interstate War Civil War Muslim Belligerent COLD WAR IRAN REV BERLIN WALL POST- 9/ More civil wars since 1989 Since 1989 almost every interstate conflict is between Muslim belligerents
8 Figure 2: Muslim State Conflict Totals by Region Interstate War Muslim Belligerent Civil War 1 5 Africa America Asia Europe Oceania Middle East Africa and Middle East have the most conflicts Africa and Middle East have the most civil wars
9 Figure 3: Conflicts and ViolaDons by Muslim States, Interstate War Civil War Muslim Belligerent Interstate ViolaFon Civil War ViolaFon COLD WAR IRAN REV BERLIN WALL POST- 9/ Muslim Belligerent ViolaFon Number of violations in civil wars greater than violations in interstate wars Civil war violations: increase; interstate war violations: decrease
10 Figure 4: Total Conflicts and ViolaDons by Muslim States, Conflicts ViolaFons Drastic increase in violations from 1975 to peak in 1991 World events: Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Iran-Iraq War, Gulf War
11 Figure 5: Total Conflicts and ViolaDons by Country (A- Le), Afghanistan Albania Algeria Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Benin Brunei- Burkina Faso Cameroon Chad Comoros Cote D'Ivoire DjibouF Egypt Gabon Gambia Guinea Guinea- Bissau Guyana Indonesia Iran Iraq Jordan Kazahkstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Conflicts ViolaFons No conflicts: 7 Conflicts but no violations: 1
12 4 Figure 6: Total Conflicts and ViolaDons by Country (Li- Y), Libya Malaysia Maldives Mali Mauritania Morocco Mozambique Niger Nigeria Oman Qatar Pakistan Saudi Arabia Sierra Leone Conflicts ViolaFons High Violators: Iraq (4), Pakistan (26), Afghanistan (24), Indonesia (24), Nigeria (24), and Somalia (22) Senegal Somalia Sudan Suriname Syria Tajikistan Togo Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan UAE Uganda Uzbekistan Yemen
13 3 Figure 7: ConsDtuDon Language: UDHR & Sharia Content (A- L) Afghanistan Albania Algeria Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Benin Brunei- Darussalam Burkina Faso Cameroon Chad Comoros Cote d'ivorie DijbouF Egypt (transisfonal) Egypt (212) Egypt (old) UDHR UDHR content present in all but 1 constitution Gabon Guinea Guinea- Bissau Guyana Indonesia Iran Iraq Jordan Kazakhstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Libya (new) Libya (old) Sharia
14 Figure 8: ConsDtuDon Language: UDHR & Sharia Content (M- Z) Malaysia Maldives Mali MaurFania Morocco Mozambique Niger Nigeria Oman Pakistan PalesFne Qatar Saudi Arabia Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia Sudan South Sudan Suriname Syria Tajikistan The Gambia Togo Tunisia (old) Tunisia (new) Turkey Turkministan UAE Uganda Uzbekistan Yemen UDHR Sharia Sharia content present in 32 of the 62 constitutions examined
15 7 Figure 9: Sharia Content Afghanistan Algeria Bahrain Benin Burkina Faso Chad Cote d'ivorie Egypt (212) Egypt (transisfonal) Guinea Guyana Iran Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Libya (old) Maldives MaurFania Mozambique Nigeria Pakistan Qatar Senegal Somalia Sudan Syria The Gambia Tunisia (new) Turkey UAE Uzbekistan Countries with highest Sharia density: Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen
16 Conflicts ViolaFons Sharia Figure 1: Total Conflicts and ViolaDons with Sharia Content by Country (A- Le) Afghanistan Albania Algeria Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Benin Brunei- Darussalam Burkina Faso Cameroon Chad Comoros Cote D'Ivoire DjibouF Egypt Gabon Gambia Guinea Guinea- Bissau Guyana Indonesia Iran Iraq Jordan Kazahkstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lebanon
17 4 Figure 11: Total Conflicts and ViolaDons with Sharia Content by Country (Li- Y) Libya Malaysia Maldives Mali Mauritania Morocco Mozambique Niger Nigeria Oman Qatar Pakistan Saudi Arabia Sierra Leone Senegal Somalia Sudan Suriname Syria Tajikistan Togo Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan UAE Uganda Uzbekistan Yemen Conflicts ViolaFons Sharia
18 Summary of Findings More civil wars occur than interstate wars, mostly in Africa and the Middle East More violafons of IHL occur in civil wars than interstate wars Number of conflicts and violafons increase unfl 1991 when they peaked and then drasfcally declined UDHR is prevalent in almost all OIC consftufons but only Sharia content is present in only half of the consftufons Based on preliminary research, it is difficult to discern a correlafon between Sharia density and IHL violafons
19 Policy Implications More violafons of IHL occur in civil wars so more aid should be given to civil war conflict mifgafon Countries who receive large amounts of U.S. foreign aid have a record of significafon violafons of IHL so U.S. support needs to be coupled with IHL training, implementafon, and compliance For countries that have a history of IHL violafons and are solicifng U.S. support, the U.S. should require compliance assurance before giving support
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